Carpathian Basin Rovas

The Carpathian Basin Rovas script, or Kárpát-medencei rovás
in Hungarian, was used in the Carpathian Basin between about the
7th and 11th centuries. Most of the inscriptions are in Hungarian,
but some were in Onogur, As-Alan, Slavic or Eurasian Avar.

Carpathian Basin Rovas is thought to be a descendent of the
Proto-Rovas script, which was used to the east of the Aral Sea
between about the 1st century AD and 567, when the tribes who
were using it, the Avars and Ogurs, started to move into the
Carpathian Basin. That process took until about 670 AD, after
which the Proto-Rovas script became the Carpathian Basin Rovas
and the Khazarian Rovas scripts. The Proto-Rovas script was
perhaps a descendent of the Aramaic script.

Since 2009 efforts have been made to revive the use of this alphabet.
Some letters were added to it to represent sounds in modern Hungarian
that weren't used historically.

Notable features

Type of writing system: alphabet

Direction of writing: right to left in horizontal lines

Used to write: Hungarian, Onogur, As-Alan, Slavic and Eurasian Avar.

Carpathian Basin Rovas

Letters in red were not used historically, and
in most cases IPA transcriptions show the modern pronunciation
of letters on the left and the historical pronunciation (where
different) on the right.